Luckily, the policy only applies to public profile photos. So you can still share your jockstrap pics and crotch shots in private albums and chats.

Silverberg adds that the new policy is not in response to SESTA or FOSTA, laws supposedly designed to crack down on online sex trafficking but which have curiously resulted in many online queer spaces being censored. Most recently, Tumblr issued a ban on all porn. Before that, Craigslist did away with its personals pages.

“Given that Scruff is a community that speaks openly and positively about sex, bodies, and intimacy, some feel that such policies are at odds with those values,” Silverberg says.

“Such criticism is not unfounded. Scruff respects the concerns voiced by our community on this matter, and we encourage everyone to continue to hold us and all tech companies, accountable for the content and conduct standards we enforce.”

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Since the apps outcompeted the websites like PlanetOut or Manhunt, there aren’t great alternatives left. Sure, meeting in the real world is ideal, but that’s not feasible for people in rural areas or even some suburbs. Sad.

Unless you are a professional athletes, who else wears the outlandish jock straps these days and for what? I am glad the site owners are finally doing something to make their web sites more decent and appropriate.

They can blame whomever they like. But I’d like to point out that although the apps are free, seeing private pictures is not. That requires an upgrade in membership. And who stands to profit from this censorship?

It’s because of Apple and it’s moronic policies about keeping adult content off its shitty appstore. Tumblr did it to appease Apple, now these other apps are falling in line too. Don’t like it then complain to Apple.

it doesn’t seem like they’re enforcing this at all. i just opened scruff and grindr, and on both apps i saw dozens of “jockstraps, underwear, bikini style swimsuits, or crotch shots” in main profile photos